Substance use among children of Hispanic school dropouts

描述：(申请人提供)： 辍学和吸毒加剧了存在的健康差距。 在美国不同的选区之间。广泛的负面健康， 经济和社会结果既是学校失败的结果，也是物质的结果 使用，而且对弱势少数族裔青少年的影响不成比例。在……里面 为了打破这一循环，需要关于 学校失败和药物使用风险的代际传递。至 为此，本研究的重点是确定 可能将西班牙裔辍学儿童置于危险境地的特征 因为学业不及格和吸毒。具体地说， 建议的项目将研究： 1：父母教育因素与父母参与的关系 儿童的学校教育(例如，学校参观、丰富活动和 鼓励孩子在学校取得成功) 2：父母教育因素、父母教育因素之间的相互关系 参与孩子的教育和孩子的早期吸烟， 酒精和吸入剂 3.父母对子女教育的参与程度与子女受教育程度的关系 孩子们的学习成绩 4：父母吸毒、养育方式与子女的关系 物质使用 这项拟议研究中包括的父母一直在参与 墨西哥裔美国人辍学项目(由NIDA资助；查韦斯，PI)和毒品数据 使用和学校变量提供给父母，因为他们是 青少年。在目前的研究中，来自墨西哥裔美国人的参与者 辍学项目及其子女将在三个时间点进行测量，当 孩子们上三、四、五年级。纵向数据 分析将使用结构方程模型进行，潜在 过渡分析和潜在增长模型。职业发展计划 包括规定PI获得这些高级统计方面的培训 技巧。职业发展计划旨在使私人投资经理能够学习 通过阅读、研讨会等了解分析技术，然后 在实际数据分析中利用这些知识。PI是一种发展 受过物质使用预防研究博士后培训的心理学家。 PI在经历了职业生涯中断后最近回到了学术界， 她认为，掌握这些统计技能是 她有能力制定一个外部资助的发展研究计划 流行病学。

DESCRIPTION: (Provided by Applicant): School dropout and drug use contribute to the health disparities that exist between different constituencies within the US. Wide ranging negative health, economic and social outcomes result both from school failure and from substance use, and they disproportionately affect disadvantaged, minority adolescents. In order to break this cycle, data are needed on the mechanisms of the intergenerational transmission of risk for school failure and substance use. To that end, the focus of the present study is the identification of characteristics that might put the children of Hispanic school dropouts at risk for school failure and drug abuse. Specifically, the primary aims of the proposed project are to study: 1: the relation between parental educational factors and parent involvement in child's schooling (i.e., school visitation, enrichment activities, and encouragement of child's school success) 2: the interrelations between parental educational factors, the parent's involvement in the child's schooling and the child's early use of cigarettes, alcohol, and inhalants 3: the relation between parental involvement in the child's schooling and the child's academic performance 4: the relation between parental drug use, parenting practices, and children's substance use The parents included in the proposed study have been participating in the Mexican American dropout project (funded by NIDA; Chavez, PI) and data on drug use and school variables are available for the parents since they were adolescents. In the current study, participants from the Mexican American dropout project and their children will be measured at three time points, when the children are in the third, fourth, and fifth grades. Longitudinal data analyses will be conducted using structural equation modeling, latent transition analysis, and latent growth modeling. The career development plan includes provisions for the PI to obtain training in those advanced statistical techniques. The career development plan is designed to enable the PI to learn about an analytic technique through readings, workshops, etc. and then to utilize this knowledge in the analysis of real data. The PI is a developmental psychologist with postdoctoral training in substance use prevention research. The PI has recently returned to academia following a career interruption and she believes that the acquisition of these statistical skills is integral to her ability to develop an externally funded research program in developmental epidemiology.